Baker Shindler Contracting Co., Inc. - Defiance

Safety Insights for Baker Shindler Contracting Co., Inc. - Defiance

Baker Shindler Contracting Co., Inc. - Defiance operates an establishment with approximately 20 full-time equivalent workers in Defiance, OH, classified under the Addition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building industry (NAICS 236220). Across 5 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 1 recordable injuries, 1 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.9 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the B letter grade (Good Safety Record).

Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 2.9 for Addition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building, Baker Shindler Contracting Co., Inc. - Defiance's workforce experiences 67% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked, a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers, so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.

Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 5 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Baker Shindler Contracting Co., Inc. - Defiance as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries, there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.